Nick Phelps

Title/Position: Professor of Urban and Regional Development
Department/Faculty/Institution: Bartlett School of Planning, University College London
Degree(s)/School(s): BA (Hons) Geography, University College London; PhD Geography, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
E-mail: n.phelps@ucl.ac.uk

Background: Nick Phelps has a range of interests that cover economic and urban geography and planning internationally. His recent interests focus on the distinctive development of, politics in and planning challenges facing, post-suburban communities internationally. He has long-standing interests in understanding the evolution of city-region economies. His recent work in the UK has focused on the politics and planning processes underlying the production of urban sprawl. Phelps’ recent publications include An Anatomy of Sprawl: Planning and Politics in Britain (Routledge, 2012) and International Perspectives on Suburbanization: a Post-suburban World? (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2011), co-edited with Fulong Wu.

Research Interests: The economy of city-regions; (sub)urban politics; The economics of urban agglomeration; The contribution of planning processes to urban sprawl.

Selected Publications:

2012 Phelps, N.A. An anatomy of sprawl: Planning and Politics in Britain. Routledge, London

2011 Phelps, N.A ‘The sub-creative economy of the suburbs in question’, International Journal of Cultural Studies

2011 Golubchikov, O. and Phelps, N.A. ‘The political economy of place at the post-Socialist metropolitan periphery: governing growth on the edge of Moscow’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers